442 RESULTS. 



About half the seals taken by me are cows with pup. I have taken 

 a few old bulls in my life, but not many. Have 



Naahtou, p. 298. taken quite a number of yearlings. The male 



seals taken are between two and three years. 



I think about half the seals killed by me are females with pup. I 

 think there are a few more males killed in April 



Smith Natch, p. 298. than females, but in May there are more females 

 killed. 



About one-half of the seal I have taken were females with pup. Have 



taken a very few yearlings. Once in a while I 

 Dan Natulan, p. 286. take an old bull, but not often. The male seals 



that I have killed are two and three years old, I 

 think. 

 Think about half of the seals taken by me have been cows with pup; 



the rest are yearlings and young males two and 

 Jos. NeisUkaitk, p. 289. three years old. Have never seen an old bull in 



my life. 



Almost every female that has arrived at the age of maturity is preg- 

 nant. We follow them on from there into the 



Nilea Nelson, p. 470. Bering Sea, and almost all of the females taken are 

 pregnant. 



I think about half the seals taken by me are females with pup. 



Have never taken but a few old bulls in my life. 

 Ntkla-ah, p. 288. Have taken a good many yearlings, but never 



examined them as to sex. 



We sailed south as far as Blanco, sealing around there for two or 



three months, when we headed north into the 



JoUn O'Brien, p. 470. Bering Sea, having caught 250 or 300 seals before 



entering the sea, of which 00 per cent of them 



were females, mostly all of them having pnps in them. 



In the beginning of the season we killed mostly yearling seals, but 

 as the season advanced we got almost all mothers 



Nelson T. Oliver, p. 372. in young in the vicinity of Cape Flattery or from 

 the Columbia River to Vancouver. 



The catch along the coast for the last six or seven years, since the 



rifle and shotgun have come into use, is princi- 



Wm. Parker, p. 344. pally females and the grown ones have pups in 



them. The catch of young seals is much less in 



proportion to the number caught than they were when Indians used 



to take them by spearing. 



We began sealing off Cape Flattery and sealed right up towards the 



Bering Sea, capturing 10 seals along the coast, all 



CUas. Peterson, p. 345. of which were females with pup. We captured 



250 female seals with pup on the coast and then 



returned to Victoria, after which we sailed again iu a short time on the 



same vessel with the same crew for the North Pacific Ocean and Bering 



Sea, capturing about 250 female seals while en route to the Bering 



Sea, also a few male yearlings. 



